Really interesting article about ice skating changing the rules to allow same-sex pairs. Honestly didn’t realize just how deeply sexist the sport is - points out the official rules only just stopped calling women skaters “ladies”

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Really interesting article about ice skating changing the rules to allow same-sex pairs. Honestly didn’t realize just how deeply sexist the sport is - points out the official rules only just stopped calling women skaters “ladies”
I just learned about this too!! One of my fave podcasts, You're Wrong About, has a number of eps on the weirdness of figure skating, but their most recent ep on Debi Thomas gets into a bit of the institutional fuckery involved in figure skating w/r/t sexism/racism/homophobia, worth a listen if you want to get more info on that